I'll be not-Sith for this one. :p (Also! Forgive me if the grammar of my post sucks. I have an infant chewing on one of my arms while I type with the other. lol)

I've always considered the pen to be mightier. Like the sword, it is destructive, protective, solves problems, and is involved with war. The pen is capable of so much more than that, though. In addition to those reasons, it also can create peace, it scribes our histories, we communicate with it, artists use it to make poems and stories, we use our pens to write notes of forgiveness and apologies, pens are the starting drafts for essays, blueprints, and so much more!

I'll leave it brief since commenters after me will more than likely have more detailed responses. Our pens are precious tools that we must use until the ink runs out. :] Even then, we'll never run out of ink because people will never run out of ideas.

Instinctively passive unless the story needs a push. I adapt as needed.

Favorite Genres:

SciFi, Fantasy, Modern, Twist Genres.

Genre You DON'T Like:

Mature, Horror (with rare exceptions)

THE PEN.

Because as powerful as the sword is, it induces fear. And people can only be moved by fear for so long as they are afraid. Once courage bubbles in their hearts, they will rebel against an unjust sword.

With the Pen I can soe the seeds needed to wipe out your entire country, race, ethnicity, creed, religion. All without ever getting my life in much danger. All without ever having o kill a single man woman boy or girl myself.

With the Pen I can also ironically stab someone in the throat and end their life... but that's just one of it's ten thousand uses! It also makes a good back scratcher, I'd like to see YOU scratch your back with a sword! EXACTLY!!

While the sword is the one that causes more deaths vs. the pen, the pen is what signs the death certificate and orders of execution. It writes the hitman's book, and it signs warrants that turn into blood baths. using the pen can get you more of what you want than the sword, because it has more uses to it than killing; without the pen or writing objects, computers and other inventions we have today wouldn't be realistic. Where there is words to be written there is power.

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Very aggressive. I can try to be passive, but really, I like keeping things moving.

Favorite Genres:

Fantasy is number one. Steampunk, sci-fi, alternate history, and everything else that isn't boringly realistic are also fine by me.

Genre You DON'T Like:

Anything modern, realistic, and without a good plot. Don't give me some free-form, unplotted crud set in a generic modern city. No bueno.

The sword is immediate, but the pen lingers.
What's more powerful, a regular bunch of dynamite or a nuclear grenade? While the dynamite will leave a bigger hole, you can fill in that hole and it will be like nothing happens. The nuclear grenade creates an area which will be unusable for decades or even centuries. Even when you fill in that hole, you can't build on it.
The sword can end a life, but without the pen to record the action, similar idiots will be performing similar butchery until the death of the species. And violence begets violence- it take a pen to end the vicious cycle.

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